IRNA -- A senior Iranian cleric on Friday denounced as 'false' US claims that it respected human rights in Iraq and sought to establish democracy in that country as he called on Iraqis to determine their fate by following clerics and maintaining their unity. "America is making fun of all such issues as democracy and human rights," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told thousands of worshipers to the chants of 'Death to America' at weekly Friday prayers here. "America is committed to none of UN resolutions nor democracy," the cleric said and denounced Washington for acting as if it were the 'custodian' of the Iraqi people.
He called Iraq and Palestine as 'the most important issues of the Islamic world' and reminded Islamic states of the founder of the Islamic Revolution late Imam Khomeini's warning that they 'resist America and Israel'. "The Iraqi nation will ultimately come to the conclusion that they have no other choice than (waging) an Intifada," the cleric said, citing the Palestinian style of uprising against the Israeli occupation.
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He also lashed out at the use of force and violence by US troops in Iraq and said, "The Iraqi people, after release from a wolf like Saddam (Hussein), have now been trapped by another wolf (like America)." |